Oscillations & Dynamic Instabilities In Chemical
Systems
July 28 - August 2, 2002
Queen's College
Oxford, UK
Chair: Stefan C Müller
Vice-Chair: John Pojman
July 28 - August 2, 2002
SUNDAY |
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm Arrival and check-in
6:00 pm Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm SESSION 1: Oscillatory Reactions
Session Leader: Stephen K. Scott (University of Leeds)
7:30 pm - 8:15 pm Miklos Orban (Eötvös University, Budapest)
"Oscillatory chemical reactions in solutions: Earlier discoveries and recent advances"
8:15 pm - 8:30 pm Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:15 pm Barbara Bakker (Vreie Universiteit Amsterdam)
"Yeast glycolytic oscillations are not controlled by a single oscillophore"
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
MONDAY |
7:45am - 8:30 am Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm SESSION 2: Chemical Patterns and Waves
Session Leader: Anatol M. Zhabotinsky (Brandeis University, Waltham)
9:00 am - 9:45 am Qi Ouyang (Peking University)
"New observations of spiral instabilities in the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction"
9:45 am - 10:00 am Discussion
10:00 am Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:15 am Oliver Steinbock (Florida State University, Tallahassee)
"Pattern formation on the surface of passivated and protected metal"
11:15 am - 11:30 am Discussion
11:30 am - 12:15 pm Maria Wittmann (Technical University of Budapest)
"New types of electrolyte diodes with charged hydrogels"
12:15 am - 12:30 am Discussion
12:45 pm Photo Session
1:00 pm Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Poster Session
6:00 pm Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm SESSION 3: Theoretical Advances
Session Leader: Philip Maini (Oxford University)
7:30 pm - 8:15 pm Gregoire Nicolis (Université Libre, Brussels)
"Nonlinear kinetics in complex media and mesoscopic supports"
8:15 pm - 8:30 pm Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:15 pm Raymond Kapral (Toronto University)
"Filaments and fronts in three-dimensional reaction diffusion systems"
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
TUESDAY |
7:45 am - 8:30 am Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm SESSION 4: Nonlinear Dynamics in Polymeric Systems
Session Leader: Qui Tran-Cong (Kyoto Institute of Technology)
9:00 am - 9:45 am Vitaly Volpert (Université de Lyon I)
"Instabilities in frontal polymerization"
9:45 am - 10:00 am Discussion
10:00 am Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:15 am Jack F. Douglas (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, USA)
"Oscillatory crystallization of polymer mixtures"
11:15 am - 11:30 am Discussion
11:30 am - 12:15 pm Anthony J. Ryan (University of Sheffield)
"Using oscillating reactions to drive molecular valves and motors"
12:15 am - 12:30 am Discussion
12:45 pm Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Poster Session
6:00 pm Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm SESSION 5: Short Talks I
Session Leader: John Pojman (University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg)
7:30 pm Silvia De Monte (Technical University of Denmark)
"Oscillations death as a general phenomenon in populations of nonidentical dynamical systems"
7:45 pm Véronique Pimienta (Université P. Sabatier)
"On the mechanism of interfacial liquid/liquid potential oscillations"
8:00 pm Henrik Skødt (University of Copenhagen)
"Pattern formation in an assembly of coupled Belousov-Zhabotinsky Cells"
8:15 pm Wolfgang Hanke ((Universität Hohenheim)
"The retinal spraeding depression"
8:30 pm Antoine Bonnefont (Fritz-Haber-Institut, Berlin)
"Electrochemical spatiotemporal patterns during CO oxidation on Pt"
8:45 pm Punit Parmananda (Morelos State University, Cuernavaca)
"Constructive role of noise in chemical systems: Simulations and Experiments"
9:00 pm Harold M. Hastings (Hofstra University)
"The onset of target waves in the ferroin-catalyzed Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction
9:15 pm Kenneth Showalter (West Virginia University)
"Detailed characterization of the excitability limit for spiral waves"
WEDNESDAY |
7:45 am - 8:30 am Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm SESSION 6: Patterns in Bistable Reactions
Session Leader: Pierre Borckmans (Université Libre, Brussels)
9:00 am - 9:45 am Patrick De Kepper (Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal, Bordeaux)
"From Turing patterns to front patterns and waves in bistable chemical systems
9:45 am - 10:00 am Discussion
10:00 am Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:15 am Ágota Tóth (University of Szeged)
"Convective instabilities in acidity fronts"
11:15 am - 11:30 am Discussion
11:30 am - 12:15 pm Harm-Hinrich Rotermund (Fritz-Haber-Institut, Berlin)
"Real time imaging and manipulating pattern formation during catalytic surface reactions"
12:15 am - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:45 pm Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Poster Session
6:00 pm Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm SESSION 7: Compartimented Systems
Session Leader: Jean-Claude Micheau (Université Toulouse)
7:30 pm - 8:15 pm Vladimir K. Vanag (Brandeis University, Waltham)
"From Turing structures to anti-spirals in microheterogeneous tunable reaction diffusion systems"
8:15 pm - 8:30 pm Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:15 pm Paulo M. Bisch (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
"Nonlinear dynamics of membranes and liquid films in biological systems"
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
THURSDAY |
7:45 am - 8:30 am Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm SESSION 8: Cellular Organization
Session Leader: James D. Lechleiter (University of Texas, San Antonio)
9:00 am - 9:45 am Howard R. Petty (Wayne State University, Detroit)
"Traveling metabolic waves in living neutrophils and their apparent functional significance"
9:45 am - 10:00 am Discussion
10:00 am Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:15 am Cornelis Weijer (University of Dundee)
"The control of chemotactic cell movement during Dictyostelium development and gastrulation in the chick embryo"
11:15 am - 11:30 am Discussion
11:30 am - 12:15 pm Markus Bär (MPI für Physik Komplexer Systeme, Dresden)
"Rippling in myxobacterial aggregates An example for pattern formation arising from cell-cell interactions"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:45 pm Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Poster Session
6:00 pm Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm SESSION 9: Short Talks II
Session Leader: Raima Larter (IUPUI, Indianapolis)
7:30 pm Julyan Cartwright (University of Granada)
"Formation of chemical gardens"
7:45 pm Masahiko Hara (RIKEN and Tokyo Institute of Technology)
"Spatio-temporal patterns formed by the Ag/Sb co-electrochemical deposition"
8:00 pm Marcel Wellner (SUNY Upstate Medical University)
"Scroll filaments follow geodesics"
8:15 pm Manfred H. P. Wussling (Martin-Luther Universität, Halle)
"Calcium waves in cells and gels"
8:30 pm O. Nekhamkina (Technion)
"Spatially-'chaotic' solutions in reaction-convection models and their bifurcations to moving waves"
8:45 pm Marc R. Roussel (University of Lethbridge)
"Reaction-diffusion systems with concentration-dependent diffusion coefficients"
9:00pm - 9:30 pm Business Meeting: Chair, Stefan Müller
FRIDAY |
7:45 am - 8:30 am Breakfast
9:00 am Departure